It appears that the troubled Finnish handset maker has seen some light at the end of the tunnel as Lumia 920 sales are doing better than expected. Truth be told, the sales may also indicate that initial volumes of Nokia's Lumia were too small to meet demand, but the device still did enough to surprise a financial analyst or two.

In a note to clients, Danske Bank's analyst Ilkka Rauvola has said that “Nokia’s Windows Phone model 920 is doing better than expected, and the outlook may continue to improve”. Nokia allegedly sold out the Lumia 920 in Germany, which is either grand news or just indication of the company's inability to predict and cope with demand.

Apparently, Ilkka also raised the earlier estimate of 23 million to 36 million Windows Phone 8 devices to be sold in 2013. While this is good news for Redmond, Nokia has yet to find out its true fortunes, since the company's foray into WP8 will pretty much make or break the company.

The great unwashed are getting more information from their civilian internet applications and as a result, militant groups' access to intelligence rivals what government spies can get.

According to Israel's Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin, cyber technologies were an ascendant international security threat. Basically his argument is that since knowledge is power, the wrong people are getting power. In fact, the only people that should be that informed are governments.

"Intelligence once enjoyed only by countries and world powers can now be obtained through internet systems like Google Earth, internet cameras that are deployed all over the world and linked to the web, or applications for iPhone devices that allow for quality intelligence to be received in real-time," he told a homeland security conference in Tel Aviv.

He said that there was a "mounting debate" among Islamist militant groups over the internet on how to exploit international aviation.